Does this sound familiar? You see pop-up ads from 2015.visitor-surveys.website while browsing websites that mostl of the time don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to circumvent the built-in pop-up blockers in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Maybe the 2015.visitor-surveys.website pop-ups appear when clicking search results from Google? Or does the pop-ups appear even when you’re not browsing?

Does this sound like what you see your machine, you most likely have some adware installed on your machine that pops up the 2015.visitor-surveys.website ads. So there’s no use contacting the site owner. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll try help you with the 2015.visitor-surveys.website removal in this blog post.

I found the 2015.visitor-surveys.website pop-up on one of the lab machines where I have some adware running. I’ve talked about this in some of the previous blog posts. The adware was installed on purpose, and from time to time I check if anything new has appeared, such as popup windows, new tabs in the browsers, injected ads on site that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

2015.visitor-surveys.website resolves to the 104.27.178.52 IP address was created on 2015-05-01. According to YouGetSignal’s reverse IP lookup service, the following sites are located on the same server:

• boingoboingo.com
• reallystock.ga
• traintechnologies.com
• www.afford-it.co.uk
• www.electricalcontractorinortleybeachnj.com
• www.isic.com.py
• www.modkit.com
• www.viewwebstats.com

DomainTools says imsurfsentinel.com is located on the same IP.

So, how do you remove the 2015.visitor-surveys.website pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the 2015.visitor-surveys.website ads I had WebShield, acengine, Wajam, PhaseProfessor, FastSearch, PrimaryColor, SSFK.exe, SFKEX64.exe, YTDownloader and etc installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the 2015.visitor-surveys.website pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.

The problem with pop-ups like this one is that it can be initiated by many variants of adware, not just the adware on my computer. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the 2015.visitor-surveys.website ads removal:

1. Review what programs you have installed in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Do you see anything that you don’t remember installing or that was recently installed?
2. You can also review the add-ons you installed in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that didn’t solve the problem, I’d recommend a scan with FreeFixer to manually track down the adware. FreeFixer is a freeware tool that I’m working on that scans your computer at lots of locations, such as browser add-ons, processes, Windows services, recently modified files, etc. If you want to get additional details about a file in the scan result, you can click the More Info link for that file and a web page will open up with a VirusTotal report which will be very useful to determine if the file is safe or malware:

   

Here’s a video guide showing how to remove pop-up ads with FreeFixer:

Did this blog post help you to remove the 2015.visitor-surveys.website pop-up ads? Please let me know or how I can improve this blog post.

Thank you!